The Female Complaint: The Unfinished Business of Sentimentality in American Culture

by Lauren Berlant

Book Overview

The Female Complaint is part of Lauren Berlant's groundbreaking "national sentimentality" project charting the emergence of the U.S. political sphere as an affective space of attachment and identification. In this book, Berlant chronicles the origins and conventions of the first mass-cultural "intimate public" in the United States, a "women's culture" distinguished by a view that women inevitably have something in common and are in need of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822342022
• ISBN13: 9780822342021
• Release Date: March 2008
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.2"